One of my favorite shade perennials at home blossoming right now is the Campanula ‘Samantha’. It is tucked in between two of our Ely greenstone boulders and it is full of lavender-blue blossoms. A compact long flowering Campanula with fragrant flowers, it blooms heavily in early summer. It will rebloom with periodic deadheading. I have this [...]
A rain barrel is a container that is connected to roof gutters and collects the rain water – thereby reducing the amount of water reaching surface waters. You can then use this recycled water to water flowers, your grass or even washing your car. Not only do rain barrels save money on watering bills, they [...]
The Praying Hands Hosta has to be one of the most intriguing varieties out in the marketplace. The upright narrow leaves of this plant gives it an unuual look like no other! Each green leaf is rolled and folded into a tube shape, displaying the prominent vens on the back of the leaf A thin [...]
We have just received an order of some unique hosta varieties and a few standard varieties. We have these available in very limited quantities as this was an order of a few of many varieties – not alot of a few. The hosta that I am most excited about is the hosta ‘Fingerprint’. It is [...]
Perhaps you’ve been thinking about digging and dividing some of your perennial flowers, or found that you planted some kind of shrub in a spot that is too shady, and now after a year or two want to move it to a little sunnier spot. The time of transplanting is upon us. Some sunny areas [...]
Is Spring Fever making your crazy! A quick remedy for Spring Fever is a visit to Knecht’s Nurseries! We will be opening for the season on Monday, April 6th. We are busily getting the plants ready for the growing season and out of winter mode. We are open 7 days a week – Monday through Friday, 8 [...]
We are again offering our Bonus Bucks promotion! For every $25 in retail purchases during April and May, you will earn one Bonus Buck. Earn your Bonus Bucks when you buy mulch, your hanging baskets, annuals, shrubs, trees, and perennials. When you’re ready to plant your veggie garden – think Bonus Bucks! In June, Bonus [...]
We are proud to announce that we are a 2009 Proven Winners Certified Garden Center. Through the iGarden program from Proven Winners, owners and employees are provided with plant selling tips, customer service tools and merchandising techniques to help them better serve consumers in helping them select and grow the right Proven Winners plant varieties [...]
Amy Voight, one of our landscape designers, and her husband Nathan, welcomed a new baby boy to their family on March 28, 2009. Timothy James Voight was also welcomed by his two older brothers – Caleb and Joshua. He is absolutely adorable. Little Timmy (as his brothers call him) will be keeping Mom busy for [...]
Bring your children ages 3 and up to the nursery on Saturday morning, April 25th, starting at 10:30 to pot up their very own flower pot for Mom, for Mother’s Day! We will care for their pot of flowers here in the greenhouses until Mother’s Day weekend when they can come in and pick it [...]
Twist-n-Shout Hydrangea is the newest addition joining the original Endless Summer and Blushing Bride in the Endless Summer Hydrangea Collection. Abundant, gorgeous blossoms of pink or periwinkle blue (depending on soil type) with lacey deep-pink centers bloom on old and new wood all summer long. Zone 4 hardy, easy to care for, it sports sturdy [...]
Our plant spotlight today is a new perennial Lupine. Lupines are colorful favorites in the spring and summer garden. They can be used as accent plants with shrubs, or used in the back of a perennial garden. They are a wonderful complement with irises, peonies, bellflowers and annuals. Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to their colorful stalks [...]
Every spring we put our carry-over balled and burlapped (B&B) trees on sale at 50% off. What this means is that the trees that we dug from the field last spring and that didn’t find a home, are on sale at an incredible savings! We have evergreen trees, ornamental trees and shade trees in this [...]
We spent a few days this week in northern Arkansas on the White River. Leif tells everyone that I made him go trout fishing! We did catch trout – Rainbow and Brown. A couple of the Brown trout that Leif caught were very nice size – exciting for him! We did a little site seeing. [...]
This year, more than ever, I believe we will see more people going back to or start to vegetable garden. A well planned out vegetable garden will yield good results, prove economical and will definitely deliver a sense of pride in your accomplishments! We have our vegetable garden here at the nursery (since we’re here [...]
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